Posts by Feiya

Hey Player,

Not sure what your stance on feature requests are, but I would like to make one.

Would it be at all possible to implement an entity tick-rate limiter/reducer?

Entities (animals/mobs) use a fair bit of resources just on their own. If we could reduce their tick-rate to half or even three quarters, I feel that would be a huge improvement.

If it could be altered depending on type (hostile or animal), that would be absolutely amazing, but honestly any sort of limiting would be great!

Of course, this would probably be an option and not enabled by default.

That's actually really interesting, thanks Player.

Would I be right to assume that async chunk gen/loading would be easier? Or would it be just as hard if not harder?

Also have you looked into mob-spawning algorithms? I have yet to find a mod that efficiently handles spawning without it getting to 2000+ entities randomly.

Are you able to check CPU time for entities? I feel like it's the entities that cause the most TPS lag from my server. Even with only ~150, they sure love eating my servers resources. (And I don't exactly want to just set spawning to off).

Thanks for responding It's a shame that's how it is, I do hope either you or someone else finds a good way to offload some things to threads, it sucks having a powerful server with only one core at max use ;-;

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The world generation bits are unfortunately not easier to offload to threads than entity/tile entity ticks, there are many hooks and detours into arbitrary mod code I can't control to ensure thread safety.

Excuse the ignorance, but why is this the case? Is there not some way to get in either before or after mods do their injection/modifications? Is it really that hard to run say... mob path-finding on another thread? If all else fails with that, why not try and do asynchronous things? Chunk generation absolutely is the number one killer for a lot of these big packs, being able to control chunk gen speed or even have it limited by the server would be amazing.

I'm really not trying to sound rude here, I'm legitimately curious as to why this situation is like it is, I've never had a good discussion about it.

Hey Player, thanks so much for creating and actively developing this mod! It's helped SO much with a private server I run.

I'm curious as to whether you'll look into threading some things? I understand Nallar had a go at it with TickThreading, but as we both know, trying to thread that many things is beyond hard. Is there any chance you may try running chunk generation or something else in it's own thread? Even something small would be awesome. I'd love to help but my knowledge of Java is low to nil, currently all I can offer is a willingness to test (with logs) and maybe some insight.

Please have a think about it, at first it might seem crazy to even try it, but you might think of some easy way to implement it. Even if it only helps a tiny bit, every bit counts!